Cuff-holder



(No Mode1.) HQD. BISHOP.-

'CUIT HOLDER. No. 297,744. y Patented Apr. 29, 1'884.

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UNTE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

vHEEMON D. BISHOP, OE WEST HAivrPTON, NEW YORK.

IcUFF-l-IOLDER.`

SPIllCIIEICA'I'IONv forming part of Letters Patent No. 297,744, datedApril 29, 1884.

Application tiled March 10,1884. (No model.)

To all w/wm/ t may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMON D. BISHOP, of West Hampton, in the county ofSuffolk and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedCuff-Attaching Device, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description.

This invention consists in a device of novel constructionfor attachingand adjusting cuffs to shirt-sleeves, which, while cheap, simple, andefficient, admits of being` easily manufactured, so as to present a neator ornamental appearance, and provides for both quick and readymanipulation, substantially as hereinafter described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the gurcs.

Figure l represents a side view of the attaching device applied. to ashirt-sleeve, shown in part, and a cuff in part section.. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal section upon a larger scale of said cuff-attaching device,on the line xa" in Fig. 3; and Fig. a face view of the same.

AB indicate two'thin strips or pieces of spring metal, each constructedat their Opposite ends to iformconcave jaws a b, brought to an edge attheir points 'of contact-that is, thejaws c of .one strip with the jawsb of the other strip. The one or outer Strip, A, is `of corrugated shapeon its face intermediately of its jaws a a, forming swells orprotuberancesv c c on opposite sides of its center, where it is unitedwith the other strip, B, at its center. A simple manner of thus unitingthe strips is to construct the strip B at its center with side wings orprojections, that, when turned overupon the other strip, A, fromopposite sides thereof,will form clips d d to hold the two Stripstogether. The dotted lines in Fig. 3 showthe clip projections beforethey are bent over. Said strips may, however, be riveted or otherwiseunited at their centers, and with or without the clips may be readilyThey may considerably vary in shape or design, according to the patternor style required. Both strips should be of Suitable stiffness orstrength, and the outer Strip, A, be properly tempered lto l retain itsbent shape, and to return to that shape when released from pressure, andits spring-be strong enough to hold the sleeve and cuff between its jawsaa and the jawsb b of the strip B, but so as to be easily opened bypressure applied to either of its swells or protuberances c c. Pressureon either of 'the swells o causes the depressed portion e of the strip Aat a point beyond the swell to impinge or bear on the strip B, therebyopening the two jaws a b next adjacent to the swell, and allowing of thecuff C or shirt-sleeve D to be gripped between said jaws.

The device may be attached to the sleeve at different points, thus adjustingthe cuff to any desired distance below the edge of the coatsleeve.It maybe applied almost instantaneously, and does away with thetroublesome operation of buttoning the cuff, when stiff, to theshirt-sleeve, and soiling or creasing it.

Having thus described myinvention, Iclaim as new and desire to secure byLetters Patentl. A device for attaching and adjusting cuffs toshirt-sleeves, composed of two spring-metal strips orpieces forined'withmeeting jaws at their opposite ends, and united intermediately of theirlength, and constructed to open at either of said ends on pressure beingapplied to bring the strips together between such ends andl the point ofattachment of the Strips, Substantially as specified.

2. As a new article of manufacture, the cuff attaching and adjustingdevice, consisting of a corrugated spring-metal strip, A, havingopposite end concave jaws, aa, with swells or protuberances c c betweensaid jaws, and a spring-metal strip, B, having like concave jaws, 0,17,at its opposite ends, and united with the strip A between theprotuberances c c, essentially as described.

The spring-metal strip B, havingjaws b b at its opposite ends, andconstructed with central side wings, forming clips d d, in combinationwith the corrugated spring-metal strip A, having jaws c a at its reverseends, sub` stantially as Shown and described.

HERMON D. BISHOP.

Witnesses:

BENJ. K. PAYNE, ALANSON P. ROGERS.

